sit up and take notice

Charles Bukowski, from ‘the people’

all people start to
come apart finally
and there it is:
just empty ashtrays in a room
or wisps of hair on a comb
in the dissolving moonlight.

it is all ash
and dry leaves
and grief gone
like an ocean liner.

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